Pros: - Compact
- Low power consumption
- Well suited to web browsing
- Inexpensive

Cons: - Wireless signal strength is only decent
- Only one USB
- Requires 1A to boot properly (1.5 ideal) - More than most TVs supply
- Limited to 32 GB of internal storage and 2 GB of RAM

Other Thoughts: I used 50-60 of these for a low-cost digital signage solution to loop video, display web content, etc. Out of all of those, we never had a complete device failure. A couple of units in spots with deficient wireless signal would lose connectivity once in a great while. It's a great, inexpensive solution for portable computing or web-enabling a TV when you need Windows.

If you want something small with more USB ports and a wired NIC, Zotac makes a mini PC with the same Z3735F chip and more ports. (I picked one up for ~$140.)

Pros: none

Cons: -can't install update properly
-the CPU speed is changing every second around 1G/Hz, unlike Lenovo's locked at 2.15G/Hz.
-very laggy, if you want to browse the internet you gonna stick with edge, other browsers will freeze.

Other Thoughts: You can see verified purchase and comment on both Lenovo's IdeaCentre 300 stick and this intel compute stick, bought two of them to gift one to my little sister one to my grandmother, its turns out that intel was the first one who make a product like this, but Lenovo's is the best, for performance and it will update properly unlike intel's

Pros: Small, cheap.

Cons: Got 4 of these 3 have died after a couple of months. WiFi and Bluetooth use the same chip so if you use a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard WiFi drops constantly or keyboard and mouse get jittery or just quit working. Good idea Intel, bad execution with hardware that is unreliable.

Other Thoughts: Don't waist your money on this.

Pros: I have purchased several compute sticks for testing and production. I found the WIFI to degrade after an upgrade to Windows 10 but still workable in some situations. I did have to use a wireless USB Adapter on some. Which meant using a USB HUB as well. The performance is reasonable for user who do email, word processing, spreadsheets. I did upgrade two of the Compute Sticks to Windows 10 Pro so I could join them to a Domain. I have tested them in a production environment where 2 to 3 users would be switching logons constantly thru the course of the day - however this may be Windows 10 complement. The users were accessing a local database, word processing, and browser,

Cons: I did have some difficulty upgrading one of the compute sticks to Windows 10. This was after I had installed applications and other things and may have been the problem. The other Compute Sticks I upgraded after the installation and had no problems.

Using with TV works well but you will have to magnify the desktop if you are too far from your set.

Other Thoughts: Added a USB HUB and USB Video card and second monitor worked perfectly.

Pros: Since it doesn't work as expected, none.

Cons: Very slow internet connection.
Failed to complete Windows 10 TH2 update and as a result it now will no longer completely boot up.

Other Thoughts: Intel had a great idea with this product. Unfortunately, its performance was disappointing. I wish I had never bought it.

The problem with the Windows 10 update on this device is well documented online. Even before this update failure which has now made the product unusable, its slow internet connection speed was a serious limitation.